When working in an IBM AIX® environment that uses the IBM System Storage® SAN Volume Controller (SVC), you need to be able to determine the SVC volumes that represent each AIX hdisk.This article coversthe procedure to perform this manually as well as automate the process by using a script. With these skills, you will be able to better manage the storage on your SVC and AIX systems.

Michael Hamelin introduces the new format for theX-Force Threat Intelligence Quarterlyreport. He also summarizes the ongoing trends in poisoned watering hole attacks and the emergence of point of sales attacks since 2010.

In this interview, Angel Tomala-Reyes discusses the Cloud Foundry open source project and how Codename BlueMix relates to it. He talks about the advantages BlueMix has over the base Cloud Foundry for developers, organizations, and end users. He also talks about the open beta for Codename BlueMix and some of the services that are available in the open beta.

Starting with version 16, IBM® SPSS® provides a free plug-in that enables you to run R syntax from within SPSS. The plug-in connects R to the active database. You can write results that are obtained from R into a new SPSS database for further manipulation in SPSS. Catherine Dalzell discussesher developerWorks articlethat shows readers how to use SPSS and R together.

The Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) defines the communication between a Key Lifecycle Management System (KLMS) and its clients. Some companies have been working with proprietary implementations of KMIP in different programming languages for a while, but until now, no open source solution existed. Hence, the creation of KMIP4J, an open source implementation of KMIP in Java™ code now available onwww.sourceforge.net. In this interview, one of the co-creators of KMIP4J, Michael Guster, introduces this project. Find out more about KMIP4J at thisdeveloperWorks article.

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Learn how to model and analyze time series data to detect anomalies in cybersecurity, infrastructure management, and other domains using InfoSphere Streams and the TimeSeries toolkit. Bharath Kumar and Dattaram Rao have published ahow-to guide on developerWorksthat walks you through how to use the TimeSeries tookkit step by step. You can get started with InfoSphere Streams by downloading the Quck Start edition.

InfoSphere Streams Quick Start edition is a free, downloadable, non-production version of InfoSphere Streams, a high-performance analytics platform that allows user-developed applications to rapidly ingest, analyze, and correlate information as it arrives from thousands of real-time sources. With no data or time limits, InfoSphere Streams Quick Start Edition allows you to experiment with stream computing in your own unique environment. Build a powerful analytics platform that can handle incredibility high data throughput, up to millions of events or messages per second.

Chris Hockings and Jenny Wong discuss the rising need for "Bring Your Own Identity" in corporate web applications as a follow on to "Bring Your Own Device." They discuss the challenges and standards that can help make Bring Your Own Identity a reality. They also discuss their how-to guide, "Enable bring-your-own-identity authentication" and their demonstration video, "Self-registration and bring-your-own-identity using "Tivoli Federated Identity Manager."

Stephanie Trunzo is the Chief Creative Officer for PointSource, which is an early adopter of theJazzHub platform. In this interview, she talks about how her company's usage of JazzHub goes way beyond the development phases of a project to encompass every interaction with its clients. You canregister for an account on JazzHuband start hosting your projects immediately.

IBM's X-Force research team has released theIBM X-Force 2013 Mid-YearTrend and Risk Reportto summarize their latest IT security findings. Michael Hamelin is a security architect on the X-Force team and in this interview he discusses some of highlight trends in the report. He discusses the "what's old is new" trends, the new type of "reputation stealing" attacks, and the latest technology based attacks on mobile platforms. In the first six months of 2013, the X-Force team researched 4100 new vulnerabilities, investigated 900 million web pages, created 27 million new entries in its web filter database, and managed 180 million malware signatures. You can download theIBM X-Force 2013 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Reportfor free and read all the details of their findings.

Ton Ngo has published an article titled "Prototype mobile applications built with IBM Worklight for IBM Watson. " This article is for architects and developers who are interested in building advanced mobile applications either in general or within the IBM Watson context. It describes the design and implementation of a sophisticated mobile application prototype for oncologists that interfaces with IBM Watson and with a hospital's back-end systems. A member of the IBM team that built the prototype explains how the team used IBM Worklight, with help from Dojo Mobile and Apache Cordova, to address the project's technical challenges.

Apache ZooKeeper is a high-performance coordination server for distributed applications. It exposes common services -- such as naming and configuration management, synchronization, and group services -- in a simple interface, relieving the user from the need to program from scratch. It comes with off-the-shelf support for implementing consensus, group management, leader election, and presence protocols. Mark Grover from Cloudera has published "ZooKeeper fundamentals, deployment, and applications" to show how to set up and deploy a ZooKeeper cluster in a simulated miniature distributed environment. You can use this step-by-step article to plan your ZooKeeper environment.

Mario E. De Armas and Joel Gauci have published updates to their three part series called "Enforcing Service Level Agreements using WebSphere DataPower" shows how common policies are governed, enforced, and monitored using IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® XI50 SOA Appliance, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, and IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager for SOA. This series is a must read for organizations that have service level agreement commitments with their internal and external customers.

Advanced persistent threats, the evolution of IT infrastructures, and compliance complacency can stymie security vulnerability monitoring. IBM® Security QRadar® Vulnerability Manager is a new product from IBM that is helping to redefine how IT security teams collect and use vulnerability assessment data. This member of the QRadar product family helps identify an organization's largest exposures and build a smarter remediation and mitigation action plan. By correlating scan results with the security intelligence data of QRadar SIEM, you can quickly prioritize the vulnerabilities that present the greatest potential dangers and avoid false positives or those already classified as non-threatening. developerWorks has published "An architectural view of QRadar Vulnerability Manager" to introduce the capabilities of this new product to IT security practitioners.

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Joern Klauke, and Martin Jungfer have published a new how-to guide forusing the new scripted interface for DB2 Advanced Copy Services. This new feature introduced in DB2 10.5 allows administrators to invoked the Advanced Copy Services from shell scripts instead of native code. This new feature enables IT shops to incorporate new storage hardware into their back up infrastructure more quickly and consistently. This how to guide will be useful for anyone managing a DB2 backup environment.

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Neal Ford has published part 2 in hisJava.next series. In this latest installment, he discusses Java's lack of inheritance mechanisms that are commonly found in Groovy, Scala, and Clojure. This installment further explores Clojure's use of protocols as an extension mechanism. If you're interested in the evolution of Java, you'll want to read about these extension mechanisms.

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Mark Connell and Shili Yang have demonstrated how to integrate IBM Business Process Manager with an external LDAP user directory. Their work is documented in a new article they have recently published on developerWorks called "Securely integrate an LDAP user registry with IBM Business Process Manager". This article will show you how to replace the product's default security provider and instead use your enterprise directory for authentication and authorization in Business Process Manager.

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